Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.